I am dealing with a software file format that represents
floating-point numbers in base 30 (!).  Does anyone have a name
for this base?  I found a webpage that said base 13 is called
"tredecimal", but I couldn't find any with a name for base 30.

Suggestions?

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Ben Pfaff wrote:

> I am dealing with a software file format that represents
> floating-point numbers in base 30 (!).  Does anyone have a name
> for this base?  I found a webpage that said base 13 is called
> "tredecimal", but I couldn't find any with a name for base 30.
> 
> Suggestions?

The word you seek is "trigesimal".

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Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> writes:

> I am dealing with a software file format that represents
> floating-point numbers in base 30 (!).  Does anyone have a name
> for this base?  I found a webpage that said base 13 is called
> "tredecimal", but I couldn't find any with a name for base 30.
> 
> Suggestions?

A couple of Google searches yielded "trigesimal" as a standard
name for base 30.

Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> I am dealing with a software file format that represents
> floating-point numbers in base 30 (!).  Does anyone have a name
> for this base?  I found a webpage that said base 13 is called
> "tredecimal", but I couldn't find any with a name for base 30.
> 
> Suggestions?

"uvwxyzarefree"? :-)

some useful expressions in that:
evaluate "1l0O"
"0O0O != O0O0"
x = O * l;

octal for the octagerians.

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In article <874qaoeieg.fsf@benpfaff.org>,
Ben Pfaff  <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>I am dealing with a software file format that represents
>floating-point numbers in base 30 (!).  Does anyone have a name
>for this base?  I found a webpage that said base 13 is called
>"tredecimal", but I couldn't find any with a name for base 30.

Trigesimal.
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